From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Jul 21 10:40:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA27358 for smp-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 10:40:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA27287 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 10:39:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with UUCP id TAA09914; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:30:26 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id TAA03332; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:21:30 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970721192130.08801@gtn.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:21:30 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Steve Passe Cc: Kevin Van Maren , andreas@klemm.gtn.com, peter@spinner.dialix.com.au, ady@warp.starnets.ro, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need advice for SMP production server References: <199707211357.HAA04664@fast.cs.utah.edu> <199707211639.KAA05833@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: <199707211639.KAA05833@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>; from Steve Passe on Mon, Jul 21, 1997 at 10:39:59AM -0600 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Jul 21, 1997 at 10:39:59AM -0600, Steve Passe wrote: > Hi, > > > > I'm running an Intel PR440FX with 2xPPro200's at 233MHz each. It just > > > screams along! :-) Steve has the same motherboard but it doesn't work > > > reliably for him at 233.. He has 512K cache cpus though, I've got 256K. > > > > But you started with 200's. Steve's are 166's already overclocked to 200. > > I'm not surprised his don't run at 233 ;) > > actually I'm running a gigabyte with 166's clocked at 200, and a pr440fx > with 200's clocked at 200. the pr440fx used to run at 233, but after > 1 set of code changes a couple months back I had to go back to 200 to > maintain reliability. What dimensions do your heatsinks have ??? As I said, I was unable to boot at 200 MHz. I have a fan on top of the heatsink and a fan is blowing over the CPU's (located in front of the ATX power supply). +---------------------------... | | | Power supply | | +--------------------------.... | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFan | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFan Blows to the CPU but not direktly onto it | | | | | CPU2_with_Heatsink | CPU FANFANFAN sink | CPU FANFANFAN sink | CPU FANFANFAN sink | CPU FANFANFAN sink | CPU2_with_Heatsink | | CPU1_with_Heatsink | CPU FANFANFAN sink | CPU FANFANFAN sink | CPU FANFANFAN sink | CPU FANFANFAN sink | CPU1_with_Heatsink | -- Andreas Klemm | klemm.gtn.com - powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html